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Acute mastoiditis in an Italian pediatric tertiary medical center: a 15 – year retrospective study

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Title
Acute mastoiditis in an Italian pediatric tertiary medical center: a 15 – year retrospective study
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Italian Journal of Pediatrics, June 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13052-018-0511-z
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Claudia Balsamo, Carlotta Biagi, Margherita Mancini, Ilaria Corsini, Rosalba Bergamaschi, Marcello Lanari

Abstract

Acute mastoiditis is the main suppurative complication of acute otitis media. Its incidence ranges from 1.2 to 4.2/100.000 children/year and a rise has been reported in the last years. There are controversial data regarding risk factors for mastoiditis and its complications. to evaluate demographics and clinical characteristics of children with acute mastoiditis and to identify possible risk factors for complications. We retrospectively reviewed medical charts of all the children aged 1 month-14 years admitted to our Paediatric Emergency Department from January 2002 to December 2016. One hundred forty-seven cases (97 males and 50 females) were included in the analysis, mean age was 4.8 ± 3.6 years and 28.2% of the patients were younger than 2 years. We found an increasing number of mastoiditis per year during the last 3 years of the study. Children younger than 2 years were less treated with antibiotics for acute otitis media or treated for a shorter period (p < 0.05), while they were treated at higher antibiotic's dosage for mastoiditis (p < 0.01). Older children presented more frequently with symptoms such as earache or retroauricular pain (p < 0.0001, p < 0.001). We didn't identify any risk factor for mastoiditis complications in our study. Despite the introduction of pneumococcal vaccines, the incidence of acute mastoiditis in our population has not been reduced during the last years. We have to face all the reasons why this condition is still relevant, such as antibiotic resistance, new pathogens involved and a possible role played by the implementations of therapeutic acute otitis media guidelines restricting the use of antibiotics in this disease. A particular attention should be given to younger children where signs and symptoms may be less pronounced, therefore acute otitis media or mastoiditis may be misunderstood and appropriate treatment delayed.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 5 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 8%
Student > Postgraduate 4 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Other 10 21%
Unknown 20 42%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 14 29%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 6%
Social Sciences 3 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 4%
Other 3 6%
Unknown 21 44%
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